J. Paul Getty Quotes
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.
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My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.
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Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
